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Seriously, it all depends what unit you have. I have an 1198 with 6.49 firmware. With FishID on, it will show gold fish within the 200kHz transducer cone and blue fish within the 83kHz transducer cone, but outside of the 200kHz cone. My 1199 does not work the same. All of the fish show as gold fish and does not separate between the cone angles.

Seriously, it all depends what unit you have. I have an 1198 with 6.49 firmware. With FishID on, it will show gold fish within the 200kHz transducer cone and blue fish within the 83kHz transducer cone, but outside of the 200kHz cone. My 1199 does not work the same. All of the fish show as gold fish and does not separate between the cone angles.

There are occasions I can get false alarms like at higher speeds or caused by cross-talk if I forget to turn a 2nd graph off. It is markedly better than it used to be in some of the older systems. One thing I've noticed, even though it doesn't show symbols in imaging (SI or DI), you can still get the alarm if turned on or at least it is that way with 998/1198. So, if I miss something visually on the FF while just looking at SI or DI, it will alert me.

My 1199 has the crappy 2D software and it came that way. I actually have good 2D images and have not updated it to the version with Jigging mode. Might update it in the future, but for now I use it as is. To bad HB screwed up the firmware after 6.49 and can only see gold fish and not blue and gold. I still catch fish!!

Also, want to say "thank you" Wayne for the knowledge you pass along on BBC. You help a lot of folks.

We don't want to inflate his ego too much, but Wayne would have to be rated #1 in helping people.....Rickie would have to be rated a close 2nd if you take into consideration a couple of the other forums I follow.

You guys really know your stuff! Just wondering how well the fish ID works with jigging mode off? The reason I ask is because I understood that with it on it would screw up SI, and in a couple of those screenshots it shows 2d with fish ID and SI running simultaneously. Thanks.
Bob

You guys really know your stuff! Just wondering how well the fish ID works with jigging mode off? The reason I ask is because I understood that with it on it would screw up SI, and in a couple of those screenshots it shows 2d with fish ID and SI running simultaneously. Thanks.
Bob

Jigging Mode On does not screw up SI, it just takes the sonar processing back to pre-83 kHz glitch processing.
Post-83 kHz glitch has better SI images, you may not notice the difference.

If you have Jigging Mode Off, the FishID doesn't work properly. The two colors are overlayed and you won't see both the gold and blue symbols. Works OK with just the 200 kHz setting though.